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14,000 acres have burned in the northern part of the state, forcing more evacuations. so far, more than a dozen structures have been lost or damaged. and people are looking for higher ground on the gulf coast. heavy rainfall is causing massive flooding in escambia county. a state of emergency has been declared and people living in low-lying areas are being urged to evacuate. i spoke earlier with the emergency manager don bosh about it. >> were urging all residents that are low-lying or...

earlier i spoke with the escam bya county manager. >> we advise residents in the low-lying or have flooding problems when we have heavy rains to consider going to higher ground, maybe with friends or family members elsewhere in the county. just try to get people out of harms way is the challenge right now. >> according to the national weather service, pensacola received 13 inches of rain just yesterday. forecasters say it could get another five to ten inches of rain tonight. and righ...

syria today. it is supposed to observe, and therefore, discourage the governments brutal crackdown on its own people. a crackdown that seems to be in full force despite a promise to the arab league just last week. this is amateur video reportedly from the flash point city of homs. the opposition says 22 people have been killed here today alone. the global intelligence website stratfor is still down after hackers stole thousands of client names. a group called anonymous says it has no...

>> im christine romans. house speaker john boehner says no way to the presidents plan. he has another solution and its simply says, spend less. >> im ali velshi. congressional websites crash. what president obama said that had a number of websites going off-line. details coming up on this "american morning." thanks for being with us. tuesday, july 26th. welcome to "american morning." we all stayed up later than usual last night to get a chance to hear from the president about this de...

Yesterday, the subway workers, today the rail workers are going on strike. theyve been going on strike for the last three weeks because their salaries are being cut. the portuguese already at this stage are no strangers to austerity. they anticipate a no, that when the imf comes in, things will get worse, things will get worse before they get better. there is a mood of resignation here, that is what has to happen and in fact a lot of people have been telling me that really perhaps the government...

Favor of that. lets talk a little bit about something else that is a huge victory for unions under the obama administration. probably the biggest victory for them in the last 18 months since he has been president and that is that its going to make joining unions easier. so this is going to be happening at airports for pilots, for flight attendants, for the workers there, and why is this a big, significant change? because when you unionize everyone and make it much easier, then a lot of those cos...

We are proud of it again. with your help, we are lifting up workers all across our land. we are lifting up the minors who blast or from minnesotas iron range, the dockworkers in duluth who loaded onto barges 1,000 feet long. the crew members who navigate down the great lakes through michigan and onto illinois. the rail workers who haul it right here to beautiful granite city. everyone that touches the barges, the trucks, the trains that carry the work of your hands to destinations all across our...

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Put every year millions of euro aside for those lawsuits but yes in general its going to be a very busy agenda for him for the next weeks months and years possibly an uphill battle no doubt the new pope thank you. the first few days of strikes against france israel operator one hundred million euros the rolling stone bridges could go on for months neither side the government building unions look like backing down french rail workers can retire at fifty enjoy free health care some subsidized hous...

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